Editors: Vera Kreilkamp, Nancy J. Curtin. Senior Consulting Editors: James S. Donnelly, Philip O’Leary. Assistant Editors: Elizabeth Kunz, James P. Leonard.

Editors’ Introduction [5]. ‘Getting the Picture: On Dermot Seymour’s Painting The Russians Will Water Their Horses on the Shores of Laugh Neagh’, by Seamus Heaney [9]. ‘Primavera’, by Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill [13]. ‘Who Owns Irish Art?’, by Fintan Cullen [15]. ‘Irish Visual Culture: A Policy Review’, by Anne Kelly [22]. ‘The Irish Collection in the National Gallery of Ireland’, by Síghle Bhreathnach-Lynch [38]. ‘A New Light on the Sheela-na-gig’, by Barbara Freitag [50]. ‘The Four Erins: Feminine Images of Ireland, 1780-1900’, by L. Perry Curtis, Jr. [70]. ‘Visualizing the Liberator: Self-Fashioning, Dramaturgy, and the Construction of Daniel O’Connell’, by Gary Owens [103]. ‘The Big House’, by Vona Groarke [130]. ‘Lines of Resistance: The O’Kelly Brothers in the Sudan’, by Niamh O’sullivan [131]. ‘Mary Farl Powers (1948-1992): American Person, Irish Artist’, by Katherine Powers [157]. ‘Gaol/Gaol: Re-viewing Silences in Kilmainham Gaol’, by Kathleen O’Brien [173]. ‘From the Poetic to the Political’, by Declan McGonagle [189]. Front Cover ‘Hair Pieces: Alice Maher’s Recent Art’, by Adele Dalsimer and Vera Kreilkamp [191]. ‘Interview with Alice Maher’, by Alston Conley [198]. Back Cover ‘Dorothy Cross, Beyond Feminism’, by Robin Lydenberg [212]. ‘Sensing the Sculpture of Kathy Prendergast: A Portrait of the Female Life Cycle’, by Sheila Dickinson [227]. ‘Ciarán Lennon’s Hidden Scripts’, by Katherine Harding Nahum [234]. ‘All in the Mind? Photographing the Border’, by Bill Rolston [245]. ‘Insiders and Frontiers: Paul Seawright’s Images of "The Troubles"’, by Alvin Jackson [255]. ‘Six Artists in Search of a Landscape’, by Caoimhíln Mac Giolla Léith [266]. ‘Vitruviana’, by Seamus Heaney [286]. ‘Felim Egan: A Catalogue Note’, by Seamus Heaney [287]. Reviews and Commentary ‘“When Time Began to Rant and Rage”: Figurative Painting from Twentieth-Century Ireland: A Review Essay’, by Robert Tracy [288]. ‘The Life of Jack Yeats’, by Bruce Arnold [302]. ‘After Michelangelo’, by Derek Mahon [309]. Notes and Queries ‘The Francis Bacon Studio’, by Barbara Dawson [310]. ‘From the Irish American Cultural Institute’ [313]. Contributors [315]